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      What we achieve is only as important as how we achieve it. In its projects, FoodARC strives to be inclusive and co-creates knowledge and action to ensure that activities and policy recommendations are rooted in what Nova Scotian communities need and hope for.
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      FoodARC’s emphasis on Participatory Action Research means that we believe that people’s real life experiences and their own understandings of those experiences are crucial to developing solutions to any challenges they may face.
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      Food security is impacted by many different factors. Long-term, holistic, and systemic changes are needed. That’s why advocacy and policy change at multiple levels are important strategies and can be found at the core of FoodARC’s objectives and work.
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        Generating the most comprehensive research on community food security in Nova Scotia – rooted in lived experiences, real community needs and innovative solutions
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        2005– 2017
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    - - Dismantling stigma
        Dismantling stigma: Exploring experiences of and views on food insecurity, social exclusion, and shame among women through participatory action research
        This project will focus on creating more compassionate social environments for women experiencing food insecurity as a means to contribute to social and systems change to address food insecurity.
      - Building Capacity for Reconciliation
        Building Capacity for Reconciliation: Transforming Teaching and Learning through Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing)
        FoodARC will be hosting the 2018 President’s Visiting Lecture Series on Teaching and Learning on Building Capacity for Reconciliation: Transforming Teaching and Learning through Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) in partnership with the Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network (Atlantic-IMN).
      - Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova Scotia
        Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova Scotia
        Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova Scotia was an exploratory project that focused on facilitating and strengthening cross-departmental collaborations, to create sustained action and lasting change on food insecurity in Nova Scotia.
      - Cultural Food Security
        Cultural Food Security: Building Connections and Capabilities for New Immigrants in Nova Scotia
        This project explores how to foster cultural food security for new immigrants and refugees in NS by examining factors that contribute to their food insecurity, as well as the relevance of community-driven local initiatives and programs as potential opportunities to contribute to cultural food security.
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    - - Paying for Nutrition
        Paying for Nutrition
        Funded by Industry Canada, the project will define methodology, conduct research, and produce a report about the cost of healthy foods in aboriginal communities in Nova Scotia.
      - Pictou Landing First Nation
        Pictou Landing First Nation
        This research was collaboratively developed by food security researchers in Nova Scotia and the community of Pictou Landing to explore community food security (CFS) in Pictou Landing First Nation.
      - The Provision of Charitable Food Assistance in Canada
        The Provision of Charitable Food Assistance in Canada
        This study charts the full scope of charitable food provisioning activities in Halifax, Quebec City, Toronto, Edmonton and Victoria and assesses each community’s capacity to recognize and respond to local problems of unmet food need.
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        The Children’s Lifestyle and School-performance Study (CLASS) is a province-wide research project that looks at the relationships between health, nutrition, physical activity, mental health and school performance of children in Nova Scotia.
      - Propagating the Food Movement
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        This study explores the structure and constitution of networks of food initiatives in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia, working in partnership with four provincial network organizations.
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    - - Nova Scotia Consumer Food Environment
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        FoodARC is undertaking research on the Consumer Food Environment in Nova Scotia to understand the current and future factors affecting the food & beverage environment, and the populations most affected by these environments.
      - Looking Back to Move Ahead
        Looking Back to Move Ahead: Outreach, Knowledge Mobilization, and Intersectoral Exchange to Advance Food Security in Nova Scotia.
        The project involves collaborating with local organizers to co-host a series of regional gatherings that serve as opportunities for outreach, knowledge and story sharing, action planning, and capacity building, and which focus on local priorities and interests.
      - Mobilization on Food Security and Community Economic Development
        Mobilization on Food Security and Community Economic Development
        This project was part of the Atlantic Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network, which worked to broaden knowledge about the social economy of the Atlantic region. From 2005-2011 the partnership brought together both academic and community partners committed to improving community food security.
      - Thought About Food? A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing Policy
        Thought About Food? A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing Policy
        This workbook was developed in 2005-2006 as part of a series of research projects on food security. As well as using research and experiences drawn from the Nova Scotia Food Security Projects, it incorporates ideas, insights and advice from people involved in food security issues and actions across Canada.
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    - Make Food Matters
      Make Food Matter is a strategy to support FoodARC partners in building community food security across Nova Scotia. We have gathered a range of tools that we have found to work well in supporting action on community food security. We hope it will support you and your organization, wherever you are at in your efforts.

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